Many Church Leaders and Representatives of Other Religions at Taizé

Interdenominational Christian Organizations

• World Council of Churches (WCC): Secretary General, Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit
• Global Christian Forum: Secretary General, Rev. Larry Miller
• World Evangelical Alliance: Associate Secretary General, Wilf Gasser (who also represented the European Evangelical Alliance), Secretary for Ecumenical Questions, John Baxter-Brown, Rosalee Veloso Ewell.
• Conference of European Churches (CEC): Vice President Very Rev. Karin Burstrand, Dean of the Gothenburg Cathedral, Sweden
• Czech Council of Churches: President, Rev. Daniel Fajfr.
• Hungarian Council of Churches: Secretary General, Rev. Vilmos Fischl.
• Ecumenical Institute of Bossey : Director, Rev. Ion Sauca.

Catholic Church

Vatican

• Cardinal Koch, President of Pontifical Council for Unity, representing the Pope
• Bishop Josef Clemens, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity

Continental Organizations

• Council of European Bishops Conferences (CEBC), Secretary Fr. Duarte Cunha
• Latin American Bishops Conference (CELAM) : Most Rev. Ruben Gonzalez-Medina, Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico, President of the Youth Commission
• Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC) : Most Rev. Felix Machado, Archbishop of Vasai, India

Bishops

• Cardinal Manuel Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon, President of the Portuguese Bishops Conference
• Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo
• Most Rev. Georges Pontier, Archbishop of Marseille, President of the French Bishops Conference
• Most Rev. Jean-Pierre Grallet, Archbishop of Strasbourg, France
• Most Rev. Benoît Rivière, Bishop of Autun, Chalon and Mâcon, France
• Most Rev. Jacques Blaquart, Bishop of Orleans, France.
• Most Rev. Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Oran, Algeria
• Most Rev. Pierre Dumas, Bishop of Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne, Haiti.
• Most Rev. Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, Bishop of Speyer, Germany
• Most Rev. Asztrik Várszegi, Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary
• Most Rev. Olivier de Berranger, Bishop Emeritus of St Denis, France.
• Most Rev. Gérard Daucourt, Bishop Emeritus of Nanterre, France.
• Most Rev. Peter Rosazza, Bishop Emeritus of Hartford, USA.
• Most Rev. Dominik Meyering, Vicar General of Cologne
• Father Jakob Bürgler, Vicar General of Insbruck

• Mr Jean Vanier, founder of l’Arche
• Brother Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose, Italy
• Sister Agnes Granier, Superior General of the Sisters of Saint Andrew
• Sister Marie-Thérèse Vallet, Superior General of the Ursulines for France
• Sister Alice Pons, Provincial Superior of the Sisters of Charity for the South of France

• Father Laurence Freeman, animator of the World Christian Community for Meditation
• Deacon Yuriy Leshchynskyy, diocese for Greek-Catholic Ukrainians of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland

Orthodox Churches

• Ecumenical Patriarchate: Most Rev. John (Renneteau), Bishop of Charioupolis, Geneva
• Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia: Most Rev. Nestor (Sirotenko), Bishop of Chersonèse, Paris; Hiéromoine Ioann (Guaita)
• Patriarchate of Serbia: Most Rev. Andrej (Cilerdzic) , Bishop of Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Malta, Vienna
• Patriarchate of Romania: Most Rev. Mark (Alric), Auxiliary Bishop of the Archbishopric of Western Europe, Paris
• Church of Greece: Most Rev. Athanasius (Chatzopoulos), Metropolitan of Achaia, Brussels

Oriental Orthodox Churches

• Apostolic Armenian Church: Most Rev. Vardan Navasardyan and Fr. Shahe Ananyan
• Jacobite Church: Metropolitan Thomas Mor Themotheos, Kottayam, India
• Malankar Syrian Orthodox Church: Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Coorilos, Mumbai, India, Fr. Aswin Fernandis, Ms. Elizabeth.

Old Catholic Church

• Dr Joris Vercammen, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Fr. Jean-Claude Mokry, Geneva, Switzerland

Protestant and Evangelical Churches

• Fellowship of Protestant Churches in Europe (Leuenberg) : Rev. Martin Hirzel (also representing the Protestant Federation of Switzerland)
• Protestant Federation of France: President, Rev. François Clavairoly

• Sister Pierrette, Prior of the Community of Grandchamp.
• Robert Wilson-Black, Chief Executive Officer, Sojourners Community.

Anglican Communion:

• Archbishop of York, John Sentamu
• Bishop Jorge Pina Cabral, Lusitanian Church of Portugal

Lutherans:

• Church of Sweden: Bishop Martin Modeus, Linköping
• Church of Finland: Bishop Irja Askola, Helsinki
• Church of Latvia: Archbishop Janis Vanags, Riga
• Evangelical German Church (EKD) : Bishop Gothart Magaard, Schleswig and Holstein

Reformed:

• Protestant Church of Genève, President, Rev. Emmanuel Fuchs, and the Moderator of the Company of Pastors and Deacons, Rev. Patrick Baud

United Churches:

• United Protestant Church of France: President, Rev. Laurent Schlumberger (also representing the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches)
• United Protestant Church of the Netherlands: the Secretary General, pastor Arjan Plaisier.
• Union of the Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine: President, Mr. Christian Albecker and Vice-President, Rev. Christian Krieger (President of the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine)

Methodists:

• United Methodist Church: Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar, Boston, USA

Baptists:

• World Baptist Alliance: Secretary General, Rev. Neville Callam, USA, Dr. Jim Johnson.
• Baptist Union of Germany: Rev. Thorsten May, Germany

Adventists:

• Franco-Belgian-Luxembourg Union of Adventist Churches: Rev. Pierre Kempf

Salvation Army:

• Colonel Daniel Naud, Paris

Pentecostal Church:

• Apostle Samuel Obeng Eshun, France, Elder Jonathan Akpotosu, President of the Pentecostal Church in France, Rev. Elorm Donkor, UK, Rev. Martin-Luther Avvuku, France

Full Gospel Church:

• Rev. Yoon Lee (Yoido Full Gospel Church), Korea

Hinduism

• Mr. Ranjan Chakraborty, Bangladesh and UK

Buddhism

• Venerable Hewon Sunim, representative of the President of the Jogye Order, Korea
• Rev. Shokei Steffens, Rev. Shohaku Kodoi, Mr. Jochen Nölle, Mr. Akihiro Fukutani, delegation of Nichiren-So, Japan and Germany.

Judaism

• Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman, Jerusalem

Islam

• Lebanon : Ms. Nayla Tabarra, cofoundress of Adyan, for the promotion of interreligious dialogue
• Bangladesh : Mr. Alim Khan
• Senegal : Mr. Bacary
• France : Representatives of the French group of Islamo-Christian Friendship, Antoine Poirier, Sulliman Banian, Khaled Roumo, Kahina Bahloul, Annika Skattum, Fouzia Oukazi ; Mr. Mohamed Latahy, Muslim chaplain at the Strasbourg civil hospital